Table 3.
Performance of ultrasound and clinical-laboratory examination according to the final diagnosis of surgical pathology
| Sensitivity [95% CI] |
Specificity [95% CI] |
PPV [95% CI] |
NPV [95% CI] |
Youden | Accuracy * [95% CI] |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultrasounds | 0.93 [0.87, 0.99] | 0.87 [0.79, 0.93] | 0.81 [0.72, 0.90] | 0.95 [0.91, 0.99] | 0.80 | 0.89 [0.84, 0.94] |
| Clinical-laboratory examination | 0.7 [0.58, 0.81] | 0.7 [0.60, 0.78] | 0.59 [0.46, 0.69] | 0.79 [0.7, 0.87] | 0.4 | 0.70 [0.57, 0.82] |
95% CI: confidence interval; PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value
* p < 0.05